THE TURF. 
vious trial with Snake who beat him with much ease. 
It afterwards came out, that his being beaten at the 
trial had been owing to the incapacity of the boy who 
rode him and he was a bad horse to ride : indeed, we 
remember his taking old Clift, his jockey, nearly into 
Epsom town before he could pull him up, after winning 
the race. We are compelled, however, to observe, that 
much deception in late years has been resorted to, by 
false accounts of trials, and thereby making horses 
favourites for the great stakes as in the instances of 
Panic, Premier, Swap, the General, Prince Llewellyn, 
and others some of whom were found to be as bad as 
they had been represented to be good. But the trial 
of trials took place many years back at Newmarket, in 
the time of George I. A match was made between 
the notorious Tregonwell Frampton and Sir W. Strick- 
land, to run two horses over Newmarket heath for a 
considerable sum of money ; and the betting was heavy 
between the north and south-country sportsmen on the 
event. After Sir W. Strickland's horse had been a 
short time at Newmarket, Frampton's groom, with the 
knowledge of his master, endeavoured to induce the 
baronet's groom to have a private trial, at the weights 
and distance of the match, and thus to make the race 
safe. Sir William's man had the honesty to inform his 
master of the proposal, when he ordered him to accept 
it, but to be sure to deceive the other by putting seven 
pounds more weight in the stuffing of his own saddle. 
Frampton's groom had already done the same thing, and 
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